Building the SharePoint User Experience

SharePoint is an increasingly important enterprise application used by organizations across the world. This book provides a comprehensive reference to tailoring the SharePoint User Interface to suit the needs of a reader's project.

The SharePoint user experience is critical in application architecture and user acceptance. Using tools available to all developers, Building the SharePoint User Experience will show you how to rebuild a SharePoint site, taking it all the way from the default outofthebox experience to your very own customized user experience.

Along the way you will receive a solid understanding of the SharePoint architecture that will enable you to take full advantage of the capabilities of SharePoint as a platform. This will allow you to tailor the SharePoint user experience to increase the value of solutions and to work more effectively with projects. And that, of course, leads to successful SharePoint solutions in your business that your users are happy to accept and use.

Provides a comprehensive journey into the core of the SharePoint User Experience from which readers will emerge as masters of the platform Describes skills, tips and tricks that are rarely covered in SharePoint guides but that can make a huge difference to the success of reader's projects Dives deeply into the SharePoint architecture to provide a sound understanding on the platform

Auteur
Bj rn Furuknap is a senior solutions architect, focusing primarily on SharePoint and related collaboration technologies. He has worked in IT since 1993, both as an IT professional and a developer. He is a former teacher at a college-level programming school, speaker, and author of published articles. He holds an MCSE as well as several other titles, including all current SharePoint certifications. Visit http://furuknap.blogspot.com/ for more information, articles, reviews and code samples.

Contenu
Setup and Basics.- Checking Your Gear for Departure.- Taking a Crash Course in XML.- Exploring Feature Basics and Not-So Basics.- Dissecting the Default User Experience.- Excavating the Site.- Evolving the Default User Experience.- What Lurks in the Forest of Lists?.- Encountering the Monsters in the Cave.- The Liquid Nitrogen of SharePoint.- Strolling Through Fields of Gold.- Intermission: The Mentality of a SharePoint Developer.- Building an Empire.- Starting Field.- Creating Your First Content Factory.- Accounting Gone Haywire.- Pages and Pages of Fun!.- Our Empire United.